Mike Carruthers:
Question; do you have goals? And are they written down on a
piece of paper?
Brian
Tracy:
I find that having worked with almost three million people those
people with written goals and plans who work on them everyday
run circles around highly talented people who just simply react.
Brian
Tracy, author of the book,
TurboCoach says goals help you stay focused on what's important.
In the
final analysis the only thing that really matters at work is
performance. People who get ahead are people who are known as
being good performers, people who execute. And if you are the
most popular person at work but you don't get results you'll
be the first person laid off.
Brian
believes one of the reasons we don't get the results we want
is that we waste a lot of time at work.
If you
go into the average business setting you'd be absolutely astonished
if you walk around that very few people are actually working.
It's the most amazing thing it's because they've developed the
habit of becoming very easily distracted into trivia. And what
happens is the work doesn't go away. It' builds up like an avalanche
overhang. So pretty soon they're working long hours and they're
working weekends and the primary reason is because they're killing
time at work. They're not even aware of it. And they waste it
in invisible little slices, they stop and chat with a friend
for a minute or two and they chat with another one for three
or four minutes and then they chat with another one. Before
they know it thirty minutes of each hour has been wasted in
idle chitchat. Even Drucker says if you're spending more than
ten percent of your time on personality issues and getting along
with your co-workers then you are mal-organized.
You can
link to Brian's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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